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Vanessa Frias-Martinez
Associate Professorvfrias@umd.edu
2123B Hornbake Building, South Wing
http://www.vanessafriasmartinez.org/
Dr. Vanessa Frias-Martinez is an Associate Professor in the UMD College of Information Studies and UMIACS and an affiliate associate professor in the Department of Computer Science. She also leads the Urban Computing Lab.
FOCUS
Dr. Frias-Martinez’s research focuses on the use of large-scale ubiquitous data to model the interplay between human mobility patterns and the built environment. She is also interested in how such models can be used to aid decision makers in areas such as poverty, natural disasters or smart cities.
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Urban Informatics
- Smart Cities
- Big Data Analysis
- Applied Machine Learning
- ICTs for Development
EDUCATION
- PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University
- MSc in Computer Science from Columbia University
- BSc in Computer Science from Universidad de Valladolid
Associated Research Centers
Research & Focus Areas
- Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning, and Information Retrieval
- Data Science, Analytics, and Visualization
- Smart Cities and Connected Communities